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Donna Herron •
IS May Queen
By Barbara Shifflett
Donna Page Herron, a Sociology
Inajor from Fredericksburg has
been s e Ie cte d as RPI's May
Queen for 1968.
Reigning with Donna over the
May-Festival from May 13 through
the 19th will be tbe Maid of
Honor, Susan Vaughn, CA4 Salem,
and the May court.
The first duty of the Queen and
Maid was to be receptioniSts at
the May Tea held yesterday,
,March 14, in the home of Presi­dent
Nelson. The purpose of the
tea was to choose the remainder
of the queen's court which will
consist of one sweetheart and
two attendants from each class.
A panel of 12 judges interviewed
10 girls from each class to deter­mine
which three would represent
their classes on the Court. The
selection was based on the girls'
beauty, poise and speaking abil-
Ity. -
Included on this judging panel
were the four class presidents.
SGA Presrdent Mark Auman,
Mrs. Roland H. Nelson Jr., Dr.
Charles M. Renneisen, dean of
students, Mrs. Jane Bell Glad­ding,
dean of women and Richard
E. MacDougall, dean of men.
During May Week, Donna and
her Court will reign over all the
festivities planned by the Concert
and Dance Committee. On May
17 the Queen and Court will be
presented during the concert by
the New Christy Minstrels.
The new Queen, a vivacious
senior, is involved in many ac­tivities
withln the realm of the
campus. Her activities include
being a member of the Women's
Inter-dorm Council, President of
the ninth floor of Monroe Terrace,
President of Monroe Terrace's
Presidents Council, and co-chair­man
of the Residents Hall Life
Committee.
Amid her activities on cam­pus,
Donna finds time to persue
other outside interests. She said,
• 'I enjoy working with emotion ..
ally disturbed children. 1 also
enjoy piano, tennis and swim­ming."
The brown-eyed brunette re­ceived
her nomination for May
Queen from the German Club
and Monroe Terrace ninth floor.
She had thls to say: "I would like
to thank both the German Club
and the ninth floor for nominating
me for the honor."
Donna said her first reaction
was "surprise and excitement."
She further commented, • 'This is
probably the nicest honor I've
ever received."
PRO$CRIPT.
901 W. FRANKLIN ST. RICHIIlOND PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE RIOHl\IOl\'D. \'IRGINIA U21!O
Vol, til-No.1' Frlday. 1I1.rcb n. 1968 Tel. 138.1091, Ext. Sf4
Amendments are voided;
SGA procedures illegal
Staff Photo by Harry E. Long
Donna Herron, Left, Will R~igll at May Festival
Susan Vaughn, Right, Will Be Maid of Honor
By Christy Cooke
The Senate voted this week to
void two amendments passed
since December 11, 1967.
The motion to declare the
amendments illegal was proposed
by David Bradley, Junior class
. preSident, after Milton F. Woody,
adviser of the Student Govern­ment
Association (SGA), dis­closed
that the Congress had not
followed amendment procedures
set forth in the SGA Constitution.
Meanwhile, at the House meet­ing
this week, Dr. Charles M.
Renneisen, dean of students, said
he has "some reservations about
Author John Howard -Griffin
to address next convocation
a great deal" of the student bill
of rights that Mark Auman, SGA
president, presented recently to
the Congress.
Woody told the Senate this week
that both constitutional amend­ments
passed since Dec. 11, 1967,
are "illegal and unconstitutional."
Giving two reasons for his as­S,.
ertion, Woody, a former SGA
preSident, said the amendments
had not been posted at all in a
conspicuous place for the student
body to observe and that they
had not been submitted to the
dean of students before the Con­gress
had passed them. These
two stipulations are set forth in
the SGA Constitution.
The first amendment passed
since uecember 11 provides for
the process 'of nominating an
Honor Council member to fill a
vacancy. The other, which was
passed last week, provides for the
appointment of the SGA secre-tary
and treasurer by the SGA
president.
At the Senate meeting, Nancy
Bunch, SGA secretary, said that
it is not her duty to post proposed
amendments nor to notify the
dean of students.
However, the SGA Constitution
states, "Any amendment pro­posed
for vote of the House or
Senate must be submitted to the
Dean of Students by the Secre­tary
of the SGA before the next
regular meeting of the House or
Senate." The Constitution also
·states, "The Secretary of the SGA
shall be responsible for the post­ing
of said proposals."
After the meeting Nancy saiel
no SGA member had mentioned
her responsibilities and that ap­parently
no other official knew
about it.
She said the SGA minutes are
posted on Wednesdays and that
John Howard Griffin will tell (Continued on Page 4)
: what it is like to be a Negro in
the Deep South when he speaks
· here next Thursday;...r.tarch 21. _
Addressing the 10 a.m. convo­cation,
Griffin will speak on the
ters. There have been numerous
magazine articles telling of the
aftermath of his experience.
• Born in 1920, he spent most of
-his nfe in - TeXM.S, except for
school years in France,war years
in the Pacific and recently in
Belgium as a vIsiting professor
at the University of Peace in Ti­hange
·lez-Huy.
Peace Prize winner (1958) Father
Dominique Georges Pire, and it
was Father Pire who asked Grif­fin
to share the lecture platform
with him in Europe in a fraternal
dialogue. The dialogue approach
to social problem solving is based
on their convictions that mon(}o
logues separate while dialogues
unite.
$121,214 grant received
· topic '·Black Like Me," which
Is based on his book by the same
· title.
To make a study of what it is
_like to be a Negro in the South,
-in 1959 Griffin asked a doctor to
darken his skin to enable him to
travel as a Negro for two months
through four southern states.
The project began in Griffin's
own words "as a scientific re­search
study of the Negro in the
South, with a careful compila­-
tion of data for analysis," and
ended with his filing the data anrt
writing instead "the journal of
my experiences living as a Ne­gro."
_--this compilation became the
international best-selling book
"Black Like Me," and has served
as an aid to dramatize the im­mediate
need for social change in
America. The story of his experi­ences
has been made into a m·ovie
and has been the source of
numerous television programs.
After articles about his South­ern
trip appeared in Sepia maga­zine
and he was interviewed on
television programs, he was
burned in effigy In his hometown
of Mansfield. Tex. A cross was
burned above his house, and his
family received threatening let-
The College has received a
total of $121,214 under Title
VI of the Higher Education Act
of 1965.
The University of Peace was
founded in 1960 by the Nobel
His newest hook, "The John
Howard Griffin Reader," was
The grant requires the school
to furnish $44,700 of the sum out
Says he saw honor offense
Court member may resign
EDITOR'S NOTE - The following material
was complied by the P"oscript sta/!. It is is
printed here with the knowledge that, even
though it concerns an area difficult to deal
wiUt, it i.s 0/ an extremely important nature to
the entire student body and should be made
public.
The Honor Court was to consider last night the
resignation of one ot its members who reportedly
told the court he had witnessed an Honor Code
violation and had not r~ported it to the court.
A source in the Honor Court told the Proscript
this week that the member had said last Thurs­day
that he had witnessed an Honor offense, but
had not reported the alleged offender.
The member reportedly said he had given the
alleged offender 24 hours to turn himself in. He
said that person turned himself into the faculty
member in whose class the offense was to have
occurred, and an agreement was worked out
with the faculty member.
The member told the court that he had possibly
violated the Honor Code's "failure to report"
clause by not telling the court of the incident.
John Norcutt, another court member, report­edly
asked that his fellow court member be
brought to trial. Norcutt allegedly said the court
should rule whether turning oneself into a faculty
member was acceptable under the code's pro­visions.
Norcutt later dropped the charge at the
request of other members.
(The Honor Code says witness to an Honor
Code infraction should "challenge the student sus­pected
of the infraction and offer him the op­portunity
to reSign from college or to report him­self."
The code does not say to whom the ac­cused
must report himself.)
Several Court members reportedly objected to
Norcutt's calling for a trial. He then was said to
have told them that not only must the court try
the member who allegedly saw the offense, but
·(Contlnued on Page t )
of its Maintenance and Opera­tional
fund. The grant was ap­proved
by the Higher EdUcation
Commission of Virginia this week.
According to W. O. Edwards,
director of development, thlt
amount of the grant depends on
a point system in which a col ..
lege can only ask for 20 per cent
of the total available funds.
Departments sharing in the
grant were: Biological Sciences,
$20,338; Physical Sciences, $26,-
250.95; Mathematics, $ 2,960;
Language, $5,167; Journalism,
$8,598; Arts, $45,511; and general
usage, $12,390.
All appropriated money is
designated for expanding opera_
ting facilities and improving edu­cational
equipment.
Inside today
• On Page 5, Dr. Nelson
discusses his views on "stu­dent
power"
• The General Assembly
has approved a $36.6 mil­lion
budget for RP1, but the
search for funds continues.
Details on ·page 9
• And in sports, the RPl
tennis team downs Fred­erick.
See page 11.

Donna Herron is May Queen -- Amendments are voided; SGA procedures illegal -- Author John Howard Griffin to address next convocation -- $121,214 grant received -- Court member may resign

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Published by the students of the Richmond Professional Institute, College of William and Mary (1940-1947); The Richmond Professional Institute and Virginia Polytechnic Institute cooperating (1947-1955); Richmond Professional Institute of the Colege of William and Mary <1955-1962>; Richmond Professional Institute, Sept. 21, 1962-May 24, 1968; Virginia Commonwealth University, Sept. 20, 1968-May 23, 1969.

Donna Herron •
IS May Queen
By Barbara Shifflett
Donna Page Herron, a Sociology
Inajor from Fredericksburg has
been s e Ie cte d as RPI's May
Queen for 1968.
Reigning with Donna over the
May-Festival from May 13 through
the 19th will be tbe Maid of
Honor, Susan Vaughn, CA4 Salem,
and the May court.
The first duty of the Queen and
Maid was to be receptioniSts at
the May Tea held yesterday,
,March 14, in the home of Presi­dent
Nelson. The purpose of the
tea was to choose the remainder
of the queen's court which will
consist of one sweetheart and
two attendants from each class.
A panel of 12 judges interviewed
10 girls from each class to deter­mine
which three would represent
their classes on the Court. The
selection was based on the girls'
beauty, poise and speaking abil-
Ity. -
Included on this judging panel
were the four class presidents.
SGA Presrdent Mark Auman,
Mrs. Roland H. Nelson Jr., Dr.
Charles M. Renneisen, dean of
students, Mrs. Jane Bell Glad­ding,
dean of women and Richard
E. MacDougall, dean of men.
During May Week, Donna and
her Court will reign over all the
festivities planned by the Concert
and Dance Committee. On May
17 the Queen and Court will be
presented during the concert by
the New Christy Minstrels.
The new Queen, a vivacious
senior, is involved in many ac­tivities
withln the realm of the
campus. Her activities include
being a member of the Women's
Inter-dorm Council, President of
the ninth floor of Monroe Terrace,
President of Monroe Terrace's
Presidents Council, and co-chair­man
of the Residents Hall Life
Committee.
Amid her activities on cam­pus,
Donna finds time to persue
other outside interests. She said,
• 'I enjoy working with emotion ..
ally disturbed children. 1 also
enjoy piano, tennis and swim­ming."
The brown-eyed brunette re­ceived
her nomination for May
Queen from the German Club
and Monroe Terrace ninth floor.
She had thls to say: "I would like
to thank both the German Club
and the ninth floor for nominating
me for the honor."
Donna said her first reaction
was "surprise and excitement."
She further commented, • 'This is
probably the nicest honor I've
ever received."
PRO$CRIPT.
901 W. FRANKLIN ST. RICHIIlOND PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE RIOHl\IOl\'D. \'IRGINIA U21!O
Vol, til-No.1' Frlday. 1I1.rcb n. 1968 Tel. 138.1091, Ext. Sf4
Amendments are voided;
SGA procedures illegal
Staff Photo by Harry E. Long
Donna Herron, Left, Will R~igll at May Festival
Susan Vaughn, Right, Will Be Maid of Honor
By Christy Cooke
The Senate voted this week to
void two amendments passed
since December 11, 1967.
The motion to declare the
amendments illegal was proposed
by David Bradley, Junior class
. preSident, after Milton F. Woody,
adviser of the Student Govern­ment
Association (SGA), dis­closed
that the Congress had not
followed amendment procedures
set forth in the SGA Constitution.
Meanwhile, at the House meet­ing
this week, Dr. Charles M.
Renneisen, dean of students, said
he has "some reservations about
Author John Howard -Griffin
to address next convocation
a great deal" of the student bill
of rights that Mark Auman, SGA
president, presented recently to
the Congress.
Woody told the Senate this week
that both constitutional amend­ments
passed since Dec. 11, 1967,
are "illegal and unconstitutional."
Giving two reasons for his as­S,.
ertion, Woody, a former SGA
preSident, said the amendments
had not been posted at all in a
conspicuous place for the student
body to observe and that they
had not been submitted to the
dean of students before the Con­gress
had passed them. These
two stipulations are set forth in
the SGA Constitution.
The first amendment passed
since uecember 11 provides for
the process 'of nominating an
Honor Council member to fill a
vacancy. The other, which was
passed last week, provides for the
appointment of the SGA secre-tary
and treasurer by the SGA
president.
At the Senate meeting, Nancy
Bunch, SGA secretary, said that
it is not her duty to post proposed
amendments nor to notify the
dean of students.
However, the SGA Constitution
states, "Any amendment pro­posed
for vote of the House or
Senate must be submitted to the
Dean of Students by the Secre­tary
of the SGA before the next
regular meeting of the House or
Senate." The Constitution also
·states, "The Secretary of the SGA
shall be responsible for the post­ing
of said proposals."
After the meeting Nancy saiel
no SGA member had mentioned
her responsibilities and that ap­parently
no other official knew
about it.
She said the SGA minutes are
posted on Wednesdays and that
John Howard Griffin will tell (Continued on Page 4)
: what it is like to be a Negro in
the Deep South when he speaks
· here next Thursday;...r.tarch 21. _
Addressing the 10 a.m. convo­cation,
Griffin will speak on the
ters. There have been numerous
magazine articles telling of the
aftermath of his experience.
• Born in 1920, he spent most of
-his nfe in - TeXM.S, except for
school years in France,war years
in the Pacific and recently in
Belgium as a vIsiting professor
at the University of Peace in Ti­hange
·lez-Huy.
Peace Prize winner (1958) Father
Dominique Georges Pire, and it
was Father Pire who asked Grif­fin
to share the lecture platform
with him in Europe in a fraternal
dialogue. The dialogue approach
to social problem solving is based
on their convictions that mon(}o
logues separate while dialogues
unite.
$121,214 grant received
· topic '·Black Like Me" which
Is based on his book by the same
· title.
To make a study of what it is
_like to be a Negro in the South,
-in 1959 Griffin asked a doctor to
darken his skin to enable him to
travel as a Negro for two months
through four southern states.
The project began in Griffin's
own words "as a scientific re­search
study of the Negro in the
South, with a careful compila­-
tion of data for analysis" and
ended with his filing the data anrt
writing instead "the journal of
my experiences living as a Ne­gro."
_--this compilation became the
international best-selling book
"Black Like Me" and has served
as an aid to dramatize the im­mediate
need for social change in
America. The story of his experi­ences
has been made into a m·ovie
and has been the source of
numerous television programs.
After articles about his South­ern
trip appeared in Sepia maga­zine
and he was interviewed on
television programs, he was
burned in effigy In his hometown
of Mansfield. Tex. A cross was
burned above his house, and his
family received threatening let-
The College has received a
total of $121,214 under Title
VI of the Higher Education Act
of 1965.
The University of Peace was
founded in 1960 by the Nobel
His newest hook, "The John
Howard Griffin Reader" was
The grant requires the school
to furnish $44,700 of the sum out
Says he saw honor offense
Court member may resign
EDITOR'S NOTE - The following material
was complied by the P"oscript sta/!. It is is
printed here with the knowledge that, even
though it concerns an area difficult to deal
wiUt, it i.s 0/ an extremely important nature to
the entire student body and should be made
public.
The Honor Court was to consider last night the
resignation of one ot its members who reportedly
told the court he had witnessed an Honor Code
violation and had not r~ported it to the court.
A source in the Honor Court told the Proscript
this week that the member had said last Thurs­day
that he had witnessed an Honor offense, but
had not reported the alleged offender.
The member reportedly said he had given the
alleged offender 24 hours to turn himself in. He
said that person turned himself into the faculty
member in whose class the offense was to have
occurred, and an agreement was worked out
with the faculty member.
The member told the court that he had possibly
violated the Honor Code's "failure to report"
clause by not telling the court of the incident.
John Norcutt, another court member, report­edly
asked that his fellow court member be
brought to trial. Norcutt allegedly said the court
should rule whether turning oneself into a faculty
member was acceptable under the code's pro­visions.
Norcutt later dropped the charge at the
request of other members.
(The Honor Code says witness to an Honor
Code infraction should "challenge the student sus­pected
of the infraction and offer him the op­portunity
to reSign from college or to report him­self."
The code does not say to whom the ac­cused
must report himself.)
Several Court members reportedly objected to
Norcutt's calling for a trial. He then was said to
have told them that not only must the court try
the member who allegedly saw the offense, but
·(Contlnued on Page t )
of its Maintenance and Opera­tional
fund. The grant was ap­proved
by the Higher EdUcation
Commission of Virginia this week.
According to W. O. Edwards,
director of development, thlt
amount of the grant depends on
a point system in which a col ..
lege can only ask for 20 per cent
of the total available funds.
Departments sharing in the
grant were: Biological Sciences,
$20,338; Physical Sciences, $26,-
250.95; Mathematics, $ 2,960;
Language, $5,167; Journalism,
$8,598; Arts, $45,511; and general
usage, $12,390.
All appropriated money is
designated for expanding opera_
ting facilities and improving edu­cational
equipment.
Inside today
• On Page 5, Dr. Nelson
discusses his views on "stu­dent
power"
• The General Assembly
has approved a $36.6 mil­lion
budget for RP1, but the
search for funds continues.
Details on ·page 9
• And in sports, the RPl
tennis team downs Fred­erick.
See page 11.